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Secrets Reveal'd : Early Modern Printed Books of Alchemy and "Chymistry"

The Duveen Collection of early chemistry and alchemy is part of the holdings of the Department of Special Collections at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here one can find selections from that collection which have been digitized in their entirety. Read more about the physical collection.

Secrets Reveal'd : Early Modern Printed Books of Alchemy and "Chymistry"

The Duveen Collection of early chemistry and alchemy is part of the holdings of the Department of Special Collections at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here one can find selections from that collection which have been digitized in their entirety. Read more about the physical collection.
Image Source: Plate from Amphitheatrum sapientiæ æternæ, solius veræ by Heinrich Khunrath, 1560-1605.

Secrets Reveal'd : Early Modern Printed Books of Alchemy and "Chymistry" Sample items in the collection

  • Venus vitriolata, in elixer conversa  : nec non Mars victoriosus, seu elixerizatus; sive, Modus conficiendi lapidem philosophicum tàm è venere, sivè cupro, quam à marte, sivè chalybe
  • Novo giardino di secreti curiosi et esperimentati
  • Secretti nuovi e rari : et approvati per salute delli corpi humani, con un sonetto sopra il mantener si sano
  • Secreti medicinali nuovamente dati in luce
  • Gioia preciosa : opera à chi brama la sanità utilissima & necessaria
  • Catholicon physicorum, seu, Modus conficiendi tincturam physicam & alchymicam a veteribus philosophis ...
  • Cento secreti medicinale : cavati dalli piu illustri & celebri autori della medicina tanto antichi come moderni Greci Arbi & latini
  • Congeries Paracelsicæ chemiæ de transmutationibus metallorum, ex omnibus quæ de his ab ipso scripta reperire licuit hactenus : accessit genealogia mineralium, atq[ue] metallorum omnium, eiusdem autoris
  • Grimoire du pape Honorius
  • Modo facile da difendersi dal gran freddo : con niuna, ò pochissima spesa, per chi non hà commodità di legne, ò di carbone, ò delle vesti al tempo del Verno necessarie ; qual serve in ogni loco coperto, ò scoperto, a chi stà fermo, à chi cavalca, ò và in barca, overo in carrozza ; secreto in vero utile & esperime[n]tate
  • The Philosophical Epitaph of W. C. Esquire for a Memento Mori on the Philosophers (Tomb) Stone
  • MonographsThe Philosophical Epitaph of …
  • Secreti novamente
  • Sanguis naturae, or, A manifest declaration of the sanguine and solar congealed liquor of nature
  • Philosophia maturata : an exact piece of philosophy, containing the practick and operative part thereof in gaining the philosophers stone : with the wayes how to make the mineral stone, and the calcination of mettals : whereunto is added, a work compiled by St. Dunstan, concerning the philosophers stone, and the experiments of Rumelius and preparations of Angelo Sala, all most famous chymists in their time
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